YES YES YES!!! This book checked all of my boxes. I read it over three days, and I WISHED I could have curled up on a Saturday and read it all in one piece. This book deserves your uninterrupted attention – that’s how good it was.

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Under Currents by Nora Roberts

Under Currents 
by Nora Roberts

For both Zane and Darby, their small town roots hold a terrible secret. Now, decades later, they’ve come together to build a new life. But will the past set them free or pull them under?

Zane Bigelow grew up in a beautiful, perfectly kept house in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains. Strangers―and even Zane’s own aunt across the lake―see his parents as a successful surgeon and his stylish wife, making appearances at their children’s ballet recitals and baseball games. Only Zane and his sister know the truth, until one brutal night finally reveals cracks in the facade, and Zane escapes for college without a thought of looking back…

Years later, Zane returns to his hometown determined to reconnect with the place and people that mean so much to him, despite the painful memories. As he resumes life in the colorful town, he meets a gifted landscape artist named Darby, who is on the run from ghosts of her own. 

Together they will have to teach each other what it means to face the past, and stand up for the ones they love.

Under Currents by Nora Roberts

my thoughts

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FIRST OF ALL, AT 17% I ALREADY TEARED UP.

The book was a motional powerhouse, well written, and as always very well plotted, Under Currents was one of my favorite Nora Roberts books to date.

Different than other books, the deeply developed characters carried the entire story. They were through the roof and awesome in every sense. The author took the time, and built a backstory that wove throughout the entire book. It wove in and out, until it all came full circle and was much more than expected.

Under currents – literally all the small things that bubble under the surface, hard to see until they explode and bring the ugliness to the foreground and for everyone to see.

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WHAT I LOVED ABOUT THIS BOOK WAS NUMEROUS.

I loved how much time Zane and Darby had as a couple. It’s not often that a relationship is getting enough time to really establish itself. Half of the book was all about Zane and Darby, their relationship, and their connections with his family and the Lakeview community – I loved it all.

Some of the side plots really surprised me by the way they were resolved. I was Half of the book was all about Zane and Darby, their relationship, and their connections with his family and the Lakeview community – I loved it all. I was always wondering what was to come next – this is not all, more is coming. It really kept me on the edge of my seat.

Zane and Darby were fantastic together. Their trust in each other, to accept the other’s independence, to support and build each other up – it truly was the heart and soul of the entire novel. They were a couple that worked for me from beginning to end. I’m a big lover of banter, well written dialogues, sarcasm and quick retorts – and this book had it all.

Also the community, and especially Zane’s family, their friends and the supporting cast was exceptional. I loved them ALL!!! If these kind of small towns really existed in real life I would be moving STAT!

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THE UNDERLYING MESSAGE WAS POWERFUL, IMPORTANT, AND NEVER GETS OLD.

Abuse in any way, verbally, emotionally or physically is just not ok, and this book covers it all. It’s heartbreaking at times, but there is always a hopeful and uplifting message right along. The entire plot was beautifully crafted. From the suspenseful to the emotional – Under Currents had it all.

A true winner if you ask me, and one of her best one yet.

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5 stars

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Under Currents by Nora Roberts